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Engineering for the Agentic Era: How to Spec, Build, Test, and Operate AI-Powered Systems
Agentic AI systems expose gaps in how teams define work, verify behavior, and operate software. This session covers Spec-Driven Development, agent architecture principles, and operational readiness — a practical framework for AI-native delivery. Save your seat.
SPONSORED BY HARNESS
InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program
Most teams are making the decisions that determine whether their AI systems survive production for the first time, with no external check on whether they're getting it right. These 5-week online cohorts are that check.
Building AI Agent Evals for High-Stakes Incident Response
AI agents are transforming incident response, but their non-deterministic behavior makes quality hard to measure. Learn how Datadog built an eval platform to assess reasoning, tool use, and outcomes in production for high-stakes agents at scale. Save your seat.
SPONSORED BY DATADOG
InfoQ Certified Architect Program for Senior Architects
A 5-week online cohort for senior architects, facilitated by Principal Architect Luca Mezzalira. Apply frameworks from QCon innovators, justify decisions, and earn your InfoQ certification.

InfoQ AI Security & Privacy Engineering Program
Shipping AI in a regulated environment means proving how data is handled, how controls work, and who owns governance. Work through those decisions in a confidential cohort with senior peers, facilitated by Katharine Jarmul, Author of Practical Data Privacy.
Below the Framework: Why Agent Context Is an Infrastructure Problem
Token limits and retrieval quality get the attention, but the real context problem may lie deeper in the stack. Explore latency, staleness, and sync costs — and ask whether your application code is doing infrastructure's job. Save your seat.
SPONSORED BY TACNODE
QCon San Francisco
QCon San Francisco returns on November 16-20, 2026, and brings together senior software practitioners to share what’s actually working in production today. Learn from teams already navigating AI, architecture, leadership, and scale without hype or hidden product pitches.

QCon London Software Development Conference
The AI decisions you make this year will shape what your team can ship next year. At QCon London, senior engineers from innovator and early adopter companies tell the stories behind what’s working in production. You’ll come back with patterns ready to adopt, costly mistakes you can now avoid, and a way to de-risk technical investments before building them.